I think the word you're looking for is 'profundity'. I best saw it described on another forum by a member whose handle was Thales, so with due respect to the original author - I'll cut and paste his view.
Profundity. I hate this one with an unholy passion. This is where people utter statements that appear deep but aren’t. Obviously if they can back them up, all is cool but often they can’t… and use paradoxes that sound cool. It’s basically bulls**t. Some common examples…
“Knowledge is just another kind of ignorance”
“Moving leaves you in precisely the same place”
“The path to virtue is through vice”
“Shallowness is an important kind of depth”
Now these can be interesting ideas but they have to be backed up. Often the people that use them have absolutely no idea what they mean and only use them as a shortcut to thinking.
Note that he says they can be interesting ideas but they need to be backed up.